“…Some of the authors studied the MDS sampling plan for both attribute inspection and variables inspection. For the attribute MDS sampling plan, one may refer to Vaerst, 15 Soundararajan and Vijayaraghavan, 16 Govindaraju and Subramani, 17 Subramani and Haridoss, 18 Balamurali et al 19,20 For variables inspection, one may refer to Balamurali and Jun, 21 Aslam et al 22 and Wu and Wang. 23 Nowadays, MDS sampling is also applied for designing the control charts (see, for example, Aslam et al 24,25 ).…”